Jun 10
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What is HSDD?
Apparently, there is a medical term for low libido in men and women that I wasn’t aware of. It’s called HypoActive Sexual Desire Disorder, or HSDD, since you know the medical industry (and many large corporations in their internal workings, as I can tell you from my day job) is fond of shortening these terms.
This is a disorder that can affect both men and women in varying degrees of seriousness. It affects many women, but for different reasons since us women are much more likely to associate our sexual desire with our emotions, and specifically with our emotions toward that particular person we are lacking the desire to have relations with. This is exactly why men complain about women withholding sex when they are mad at them, or are upset about something.
In women, pre-menopause seems to be a time when they experience a lot of HSDD, for men, it seems to be about the same age. Our hormones are raging when we are younger, specifically in our late teens and early twenties, and when those hormones start to decline and well, serious life starts to take over (it’s so fun being an adult sometimes, isn’t it?), that seems to be when the HSDD really kicks in for most people.
Combine that with other traits we tend to have with age like increased weight and body fat, being on drugs like blood pressure medications, and just the general feeling of apathy toward sex when we’ve been with the same people for a long time, have gotten comfortable, etc. etc. tends to make the likelihood of sexual desire dysfunction higher as we age.
There was even a new drug mulled over at the FDA recently called flibanserin that was supposed to be like a “female viagra” – a female sexual enhancement drug – which has gotten less than stellar results in actually producing more libido in women.
If you ask me, women’s reproductive organs are more complex than men’s, and it will be hard to come up with a drug to actually address all the mental and physical issues that go with low libido in women, so I’ll be shocked if they come up with something that actually works.
